Door-hanger



(Model.)

W. W. HIPMN.

11003 HANGER.

PatentedMar. 30, 1886.

UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE WILLARD W. CHIPMAN, OF EVERETI, MASSACHUSE'ITS.

DOOR-HANGER.

SPGIPIICA'I'ION forming part of Letters Patent No. 338,931, dated March 30, 1886.

App1eation filed September 19, 1885. Scria1No, 177,513.

T0 aZZ w7wm i25 may concern.-

Be ib kn0wn that I, WILLARD W. CHIPMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at; Everett, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massaehusetts, have invented a new and use 'u1 Improvement in Door-Hangers, of whieh the following is a speeification.

My invenbion relates t0 eertain improvements in that e1ass of sliding doors which are suspended from bearings above the door; and the object of the invention is to provide improved meens whereby the door may be easily opened and e1osed, and also a means for adjusting the door in case of any settling of the si1l or floor.

The invention consists in eertain details of construetion and arrangements of par'ts more fu1ly hereinaflzer descrbed, and set: forth in the claims.

Referring to the aeeornpanying drawings, Figure 1 represents er door wi'nh my invention applied. Fig. 2 is a vertieal section of the same. Figs. 3 130 8 are details of the various parts. Figs. 9 and 10 show a modifioation of the hanger.

A represents the side of a room, building, or railroad-ear; A, the dooropening; and B, the door, shown parbally open.

0 is a way or track secured above the dooropening A, and D D are wheels running in the groove in the track C.

Eis a bar, to t-he under side of whieh are seeured two bearing-pieces, FF,each provided on irs nnder side wth recesses f f, in whieh travel the axle d of the wheel D,'and also a ehanuber, f, in whieh the wheel D is free to work, and the inner ends are provided Wibh mortises or reeesses f, in whieh is fitted the ends of a spaoer, G, bolts or serews H H passing up uhrough the bar, E, thereby seeuring the parts together;

The whee1 D may be grooved on the perimeter with the bearing-surface in the groove, in Whieh case the track would have a. raised een ter or tongue on Whieh thewheel wi1l move.

On the outside of each of the bearing-pieces F is a doveteiled piece, i, the lower end of whieh is provided with a boss, z",through which a serew, I, passes. J J are hangers provided With a recess, j, in the middle, the lower end of the opening being sufficiently wide t0 pass (Modeh) over the dovetailed pecez 011 bearing-pieee F, and the upper end of the opening is provided with doveteiled sides to oorrespond with the dovetails i, so that; when the hanger J has been plaeed in position en the bearingpiece F it will be rebained by the dovetails, and at the same time be free 1:0 be 1noved up or down.

The hanger J is provided at its upper end wibh a boss or projeetion, j, against whieh the upper end of the screw I bears, so that as the serew I is turned the hanger J will be raised or lowered. The 10wer end of the hanger J is provided with a bar, J, that projeets inward, so as to be over IJhe door, and is provided with two or more notehes, j, into which the 110011 K (see Fig. 6) is placed. The object of heving more than one noteh is that should the projectiou J frorn any ezu1se not be exactly over the center of the door-opening, then the hooi; K may be p1aced in one of the side notches, so as '00 make bhe door hang eentrally. It will be seen that the door is thus adjustable both vertieally and lateraily. The lower end of the hook K is provided with a serewbhread, k, whichis serewed down into the top of the door. L, Figs. 1 and 8, is a scraper whieh may be secured to the ends of the bearing-pieees F, as shown, or to the ends of the bean1 E, the object of this seraper being to keep the track e1ear of any dush 0r morter that 1nzry LH thereon, s0 as not to obstruct the wheels D.

The under side of the track 0, I prefer to recess, as shown, so that the hook K may be passed over the projeetion J when the letter is very neer the under side of the track C.

In Figs. 9 and 10 I have shown a modification of the hanger J and hook K. In this case the 10wer end of the hanger J is formed with a flange, J in which is ent: a groeve or reoess to receive the head of the serew K. The iower end of the screw K is provided with a nut, k. In applying this arrangement to 2, door er recess is out in the edge of the door for the ad mission of the nut 7a, and a hole is bored in the upper edge of the door for the serew to pass through into the nut 7a, by turning which the bolt is raised or 1owered, as desired.

Ib will be seen that should the door require any adjustment it1 een easily be done by simor down, as required.

What I claim as my nventon is- 1. The combina.ton of the bar E, hearingpeces F F, provded With dovetailed projections 5 and screw I, the hangers J J and hooks K, wth the wheels D, and track C, substantially as and for the purposes described.

2. The bearing-pieces F, provded wbh recessesf, f, andf, dovetail piece i,and screw I, in combnabon wibh the hanger J, having recess j, wibh dovetaled edges for the adjusbment of a door snspended therefrom, substantia11y as descrbed and shown.

3. Thehanger J havng a projecton, J ,pro-

hook, K, when used for supporting 22. door, :r' 

